Inventario MMXVIII

Mario Ballesteros

This publication compiles a large collection of scale-models made during more than 25 years of work in the architect Alberto Kalach's workshop. The elaboration of models in the design process is a habit almost forgotten. Education in architecture is highly dependent on technology and increasingly distant from the study of space through manual processes. It is not a nostalgic and conservative idea - for who writes this was formed under those conditions - nor to suggest that current procedures, which are also fundamental in practice, must be supplanted. However, the use of models gradually moves away from the processes and falls into other uses -ornamental or commercial, for example- always aspiring to some artificial cleanliness and perfection. Starting from this idea, if these objects are increasingly foreign to the processes, it is even more complicated to explain the entire...